{"nrhp_refnum":"78002011","name":"Georgetown Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Water Alley, Pleasant, Short, and State Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Georgetown","county":"Brown County","state":"OH","lat":38.86564170550005,"lon":-83.90384501040748,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-05-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 17-acre historic district covering the downtown square of Georgetown, the Brown County seat in Ohio, centered on the 1851 Greek Revival county courthouse and surrounding commercial and residential buildings dating from the 1820s to the 1890s.","why_significant":"The district is described as a virtually intact downtown of an early county seat, with a late Victorian commercial row on the west side of the square and early to mid-1800s colonial row houses on the east. The courthouse, designed by Hubbard Baker, is called the oldest Greek Revival courthouse still standing in the state. The area also has ties to Ulysses S. Grant's schooling and to the many Civil War generals from Georgetown.","narrative":"Georgetown's historic district occupies the downtown square of the Brown County seat in southern Ohio. At its center is the brick courthouse, completed in 1851 to designs by Hubbard Baker, a Greek Revival building with Doric columns and a recessed portico. It is described as the oldest Greek Revival courthouse still standing in the state. A fire in June 1977 destroyed the tower and part of the roof, and local citizens were raising funds for restoration. Around the square, the west side holds a late Victorian commercial row with bracketed cornices, cast iron columns and pressed tin fronts. The east side has colonial row houses built between 1826 and 1855, including a Masonic lodge from 1846 and a former schoolhouse. One small brick building was a school attended by Ulysses S. Grant. The town also supplied thirteen Union generals during the Civil War. Together the buildings show a century of architectural change in a largely intact county-seat downtown.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Hubbard Baker (courthouse architect and builder)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Late Victorian commercial, and early colonial/Federal style row houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is rated excellent to good. A June 1977 fire destroyed the courthouse tower and part of its roof, and restoration was under consideration. The courthouse was otherwise described as structurally sound.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.079701-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002011.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002011/1cfa08153e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002011/1cfa08153e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_County_Courthouse_in_Georgetown_from_southwest.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_County_Courthouse_in_Georgetown_from_southwest.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986861","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Historic_District_(Georgetown,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5547001"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/brown-county/georgetown-historic-district-78002011/"}